332: Harry Connick Jr.
Harry Connick, Jr. has spent four decades as one of the most recognizable and versatile figures in American music — a pianist, singer, compo...
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The Third Story Podcast with Leo Sidran
THE THIRD STORY features long-form interviews with creative people of all types, hosted by musician Leo Sidran. Their stories of discovery, loss, ambition, identity, risk, and reward are dee...
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331: Nicole Zuraitis
Nicole Zuraitis has spent much of her career being asked (and asking herself) variations of the same question: where do you fit? Is the musi...
Duncan Sheik (from 2020)
Duncan Sheik's career did not follow a straight line. After studying semiotics at Brown University, he emerged in the mid 1990s as a pop sin...
330: Sullivan Fortner
Sullivan Fortner is one of the most admired and influential pianists of his generation, a musician whose curiosity stretches from the tradit...
329: Sofia Rei
Argentine singer, composer and producer Sofía Rei talks about leaving Buenos Aires and rediscovering the music of home, moving beyond the bo...
328: Ashley Kahn
Forty years ago this month, Paul Simon released Graceland , an album that became one of the defining records of his career, and one of the m...
327: Ben Sidran at 83
For his 83rd birthday, Ben Sidran revisits a 1974 DownBeat profile (done when he was 30) and considers what has changed - and what hasn't -...
326: Ben Wikler
Ben Wikler has spent his career moving between comedy and politics, communication and organizing. Growing up in Madison, Wisconsin, a city s...
325: Ben Sidran - Free In America
A conversation with Ben Sidran, from Greece on America's 250th birthday, about jazz, democracy, identity, and what remains when the scaffold...
324: Heather Aimee O'Neill
Before The Irish Goodbye became one of the most acclaimed debut novels of 2025, Heather Aimee O'Neill spent years quietly writing it while b...
323: Lakecia Benjamin
Saxophonist and bandleader Lakecia Benjamin has become one of the most dynamic voices in jazz today. Here she talks about hanging up on Clar...
322: Miles Davis
Miles Davis spent his life searching. He changed the sound of jazz repeatedly, assembling generations of musicians around him and pushing co...
321: Julieta Venegas
Mexican singer-songwriter Julieta Venegas on how growing up in Tijuana - a border city suspended between Mexico and the United States - deve...
320: Dida Pelled
Dida Pelled on her latest album I Wish You Would , a blues-focused project recorded with Tony Scherr, Kenny Wollesen, and Sullivan Fortner....
319: Emily Cavanagh's Song For You
Singer, songwriter, and founder of Song For You , Emily Cavanagh on music, service, resilience, and finding purpose in uncertain times. In t...
318: Michael Leviton and The Tell
At his monthly series The Tell , writer and storyteller Michael Leviton brings together performers and audiences for an evening where nothin...
317: Janis Siegel and The Scent of Danger
When singer Janis Siegel was invited to help produce a Women's History Month event at the United Nations, everything seemed aligned—until sh...
316: Ben Sidran - Jazz and Modernism
When I arrived in Palm Springs last month, a few days before the concert-lecture I was to play with my father, Ben Sidran, I found him surro...
315: Phoebe Katis
Phoebe Katis — a UK-born, New York–based songwriter can pinpoint the moment when her life and career were quietly reoriented. It started wit...
314: Keren Ann
Keren Ann was born in Israel, spent her early years in the Netherlands, and later moved to France. The daughter of a Russian-Jewish father a...